Who uses the IBL Perfect Skies Bundle?
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Looking at this one. I usually render the scene with NO DOME and do the sky myself, but take the lighting from various packages.
THIS
https://www.daz3d.com/ibl-skies-perfect-skies-bundle
Looks like it'd be simple enough to go in and pick a sky and get to work.
Also, maybe easier if they are all in the same place.- as opposed to hunting down .jpg by .jpg.....
I figure this does the initial lighting and Kindred Arts newest tonal beast should top off the artistic side of the render.
I'm looking at this like a Staple or Final purchase for solving all the environmental lighting issues.
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The struggle has been with certain..city sets and getting good lighting.
And/or OLDER sets with 3Delight lights or no apparent lights that I can find.
- it's the old, once you turn the dome on, you get blackness routine. lol
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Yes, no maybe so?
Who has played with this or understands its underlying mechanisms?
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I have one set.
They are HDRIs, good ones, there are actions to place them in the Environment slot of the Iray render settings, a the vendor also supplied various options for the time of day/brightness and the Dome rotation.
Personally I nearly always use other lights as well as HDRIs and I don't know if there is any 1 solution for lighting, different scenes, I find, require different lighting setups.
3DL sets have an actual Dome so yes trying to render with that will block light thats why you get a black render.
These are nice sets with lots of options, but they are by no means the only Iray sky HDRI's.
I didn't feel like they offered enough of interest in the skies to replace using basic location-based sunlight, or some of my more exciting HDRI. But I bet they're good for people who are doing lots of wide open outdoor shots, like at beaches. (I'd love a good beach set, honestly...)
I do tend to find all my HDRI by going to the Render-Settings/Presets tab, down to Render Settings again, and that's where HDRI are usually stored. What are you doing when you hunt down JPGs?
HDRIs aren't usually jpgs.
I only got the one set because I wanted the stormy skies and there isn't as much variety in them as I would have liked.
Most of the HDRI lighting sets I've bought I find under Light Presets.
I have the full bundle and have only begun to play with it. I found that it renders much faster then just sun and sky. Whats really good is that you have clouds in the sets, so you get that added touch in reflections on glass, water and other shiney surfaces. If you are going to light a large set, you are going to need other lights to highlight other areas.
From having downloaded the whole bundle, its 26.1GB to download, 40GB installed. All the light presets go to the same folder. All the images are HRDI files and not jpg or tiff
i've only tried out the stormy skies, but i've really enjoyed them.
one thing the product does that i wish more of the HDR sky sets did is: you're offered a wide range of times of day for a particular setup. so you can set it up to give you that storm's look and light at dawn, a couple of hours later, then later, etc, with each time setting giving you variations in in the tone of the light and the look of the clouds.
i generally reckon that you can never have too many HDR skies (environments i'm not so keen on, but i love the skies). these seem more realistic to me than most.
randomly: as matty says, the full set is a mammoth download.
j
I bought "IBL Skies - High Clouds" and while they look good they don't really illuminate as well has the freebies I've downloaded.
I'll keep this set but I doubt that I'll bother with the rest.
Well, what I want is usually the LIGHT SOURCE to impact the scene, but not render. So I want a transparent sky, but want everything lit up as if the sky was there. Hope that makes sense.
I render with DOME OFF. It's the Environment Map- in the render settings, that's the image I'm talking about.
This thread.....
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/66483/iray-environment-map-and-environment-intensity-sliders-what-s-the-difference
I can load...well it seems like anything up in there.lol
So maybe this is a pass and I need to find a better source of HDRIs to make my core outdoor lighting.
You can adjust the exposure on it like any other render to adjust how well your scene is lit by it. I have not had this slow down my renders at all. They are rendering faster.
@avxp "Well, what I want is usually the LIGHT SOURCE to impact the scene, but not render"
Why don't you just use the Sun-Sky setting?
Okay. I never use that . Will experiment.
this might give you what you're looking for: design anvil's real world lighting. https://www.daz3d.com/da-real-world-lighting.
harking back to fastbike1, it's sun-sky render mode based. it's a great product. there are a ton of gallery images crediting it, and a lot of references to it on the forum.
j